Delos Cosgrove

Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City Hospital was constructed in 1837 after the cholera pandemic.  This story’s feature image is of the newly-constructed free Cleveland hospital 184 years ago. As Cleveland experienced more pandemics the city’s enlightened political and health care leaders pushed for and enacted laws that provided funding to increase hospital bed capacity and expand free care.  By 1937 Cleveland’s City Hospital…

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Bibb and Griffin must read and publicly demonstrate mastery of the American Rescue Plan Act before council votes to let the inexperienced mayor spend a dime of Cleveland’s $511 million

The "administration" is responsible for determining whether a police or firefighter's death was within the line of duty. There should be complete silence coming from city council about the mayor's decision to exercise administrative authority over the employees under the mayor's supervision. Council approved a collective bargaining agreement that did not include "death benefits" for cops because the matter has already been resolved by state law's Mayor Justin Bibb's administration has a duty to enforce. It's Council President Blaine Griffin's duty to ensure that his branch of government remains on its side of the aisle.

CLEVELAND, OH – It was wise of Cleveland city council members to reject outgoing Mayor Frank Jackson and Council President Kevin Kelley’s plans to spend American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funds.  The last thing on Jackson and Kelley’s minds with around one month left in office is reading a 243-page federal law and leading their soon to be “out the door” teams in its broadest implementation.  They’re thinking about “next” and not “now.”  Whether Jackson and Kelley are mentally ready to leave or not the azz kissing that goes along with their public offices is over.  I’ve been there.…

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Attorney Darryl Eugene Pittman made history in 1985 as East Cleveland’s first mayor since 1904; and one who had to implement a new form of government

East Cleveland's first mayor since 1916, the late attorney Darryl E. Pittman, did not write amendments to the city's charter voters enacted in 1985 to include an "interim" mayor appointed by a county probate court judge to fill a vacancy in the mayor's office. Pittman didn't want the county handling any of East Cleveland's business, or its money, so he asked US Rep. Louis Stokes to write an amendment making East Cleveland a direct entitlement city so its CDBG funds would come directly from HUD.

CLEVELAND, OH – Attorney Darryl Eugene Pittman was elected on September 27, 1985 as East Cleveland’s first Mayor since 1904; and he died on July 10, 2021 the day before his 72nd birthday.  Darryl was a Columbia educated attorney born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio.  He was an older brother, a husband, a father, grandfather and one of the smartest men I knew.  Geek smart.  So is his brother … Ron. To his peers in Cleveland’s legal community Darryl was known as a good lawyer and partner in Pittman, Buchanan, Alexander, Hardiman & Wade. Two of his partners, Dean Buchanan…

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Now a convicted felon, Gary Norton joins the Cleveland Hall of Fame of dirty ex-politicians endorsed by the Plain Dealer

Every duty Gary Norton failed to perform after his mismanagement of East Cleveland's finances caused the city to be placed in fiscal caution, fiscal watch and then fiscal emergency was documented in the state auditor's report as evidence the state attorney general can use to petition for its dissolution.

CLEVELAND, OH – The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com’s editorial board has done a horrible job of endorsing candidates for elected office.  When the newspaper’s endorsed candidates commit crimes in office or demonstrate incompetence its publishers, editors and writers just act like it didn’t happen.  Ignore their ongoing offenses until law enforcement authorities step in. Gary Alexander Norton, Jr. is the latest Plain Dealer endorsed political candidate to be convicted of crimes he didn’t get caught committing until he was out of elected office.  Norton showed up at East Cleveland city hall after voters recalled him in 2016 and offered to…

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Endorsed by the Plain Dealer, Gary Norton and his police chief’s secretary got too power and money hungry with East Cleveland cash

The 2014 audit of the city of East Cleveland's finances reveals how Rick Case used car salesman Gary Norton and the police chief's ex-secretary, Vanessa Veals, mishandled payroll records for police whose time could not be verified as to the times they started or ended; or whether the overtime they were paid was authenticated.

CLEVELAND, OH – The benefit to being a Plain Dealer endorsed candidate for elected office is that the newspaper’s publisher and editors assign reporters to keep the politician’s image looking like the one their endorsement created and concealing their crimes.  Its editors don’t want the people to know they don’t know a damn thing about government and their endorsements should have been ignored. As many stories as this town’s reporters have “stolen” and continue to steal from my publications without attribution, they didn’t “steal” any of those I wrote clearly demonstrating that Gary Alexander Norton, Jr. is a criminal.  It’s…

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Was the President targeted by foreign anti-Trump Cleveland Clinic employees for a weaponized influenza “hit” at CWRU?

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CLEVELAND, OH – American Nationalist President Donald Trump picked the most “Communist colluded,” foreign-influenced, Demcoratic-run city and locations outside of Communist China and Russia to show up for a debate with Joe Biden during a “flu” pandemic.  Did Biden refuse to look at him because he didn’t want Trump breathing in his direction? Trump’s first presidential appearance in “shithole” Cleveland in 2016 became the site that launched a federal investigation of Russian collusion connected to his campaign when General Michael Flynn met here with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kisylak.  His second visit to the city at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)…

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Cleveland Clinic and UH’s greed helped killed the 47 hospitals and 7000 beds thinking leaders started building in 1837 to deal with future pandemics

CLEVELAND, OH – The Cleveland City Directory of 1974 identifies 47 hospitals in the nation’s 8th largest city that year.  Within and around Cleveland’s direct municipal borders were 7000 hospital beds that had been built into our health care infrastructure since City…

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Bibb and Griffin must read and publicly demonstrate mastery of the American Rescue Plan Act before council votes to let the inexperienced mayor spend a dime of Cleveland’s $511 million

CLEVELAND, OH – It was wise of Cleveland city council members to reject outgoing Mayor Frank Jackson and Council President Kevin Kelley’s plans to spend American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 funds.  The last thing on Jackson and Kelley’s minds with around…

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Was the President targeted by foreign anti-Trump Cleveland Clinic employees for a weaponized influenza “hit” at CWRU?

CLEVELAND, OH – American Nationalist President Donald Trump picked the most “Communist colluded,” foreign-influenced, Demcoratic-run city and locations outside of Communist China and Russia to show up for a debate with Joe Biden during a “flu” pandemic.  Did Biden refuse to look…

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